A National Labor Relations Board judge has ruled to dismiss a case filed by a Home Depot employee who alleged the company wrongly banned workers from wearing the Black Lives Matter slogan on their aprons.
An employee at a Minnesota store first filed a complaint against the Atlanta-based home improvement company in March 2021, after allegedly being suspended, and later resigning, for having the phrase on their uniform.
NLRB lawyers became involved in August 2021, arguing that Black Lives Matter should not fall under The Home Depot’s uniform policy, which bans political or religious messages “unrelated to workplace matters” from employees’ aprons, or elsewhere on their clothing.
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